A distributed approach to Complex Event Processing in RFID-enabled hospitals

Author

Zappia, I. ; Ciofi, L. ; Paganelli, Federica ; Iadanza, E. ; Gherardelli, M. ; Giuli, Dino

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

12-15 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this article we adopt the Complex Event Processing (CEP) approach for the management of information related to patients status in the context of RFID-enabled hospitals. Our main objective is to support clinical risk management by combining data from different RFID-based appliances used to monitor patient identification, patient tracking and drugs administration control. We propose a distributed system that directly embodies essential CEP principles such as event abstraction, event aggregation and event transformation to offer a hierarchical and distributed architecture where CEP capabilities are supplied by processing nodes. Events flowing through the system levels are progressively aggregated and refined in order to produce a global scoped information. In addition, we introduce specific events patterns aimed at identifying possible dangerous patient conditions.

Keywords

distributed processing; information management; medical information systems; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; risk management; CEP; RFID-enabled hospitals; clinical risk management; complex event processing; distributed approach; drugs administration control; information management; patient identification; patient tracking; patients status; Drugs; Filtering; Hospitals; Radiofrequency identification; Receivers; Risk management; Tin; RFID; clinical risk management; complex event processing; e-Health; smart buildings;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euro Med Telco Conference (EMTC), 2014

Conference_Location

Naples

Print_ISBN

978-8-8872-3721-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMTC.2014.6996628

Filename

6996628